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Dou: distributivity and beyond
No full textThis dissertation investigates the semantic properties of the particle dou in Chinese. The standard view of it is that it is a particle that accompanies plural noun phrases and has a semantics somewhat similar (not identical) to the floated all in English. In this dissertation, I will explore in some depth several phenomena where dou seems to play a role that goes beyond distributivity.
Chapter 1 introduces the standard view of dou as a distributive operator as proposed in Lin (1998) and the topics of the thesis. In so doing, the similarities and differences between dou and English all are highlighted.
Chapters 2 and 3 are devoted to two topics that are not covered in Lin's original work and that seem to pose problems for his analysis. Chapter 2 discusses what I call the dou-(dis)harmony phenomenon: dou's (in)compatibility with quantifier phrases. This challenges the standard semantics of dou in that all of the quantifier noun phrases, dou-compatible or not, are presumably plural and thus should be compatible with dou. In this chapter, I first argue that previous approaches that characterize the (dis)harmony effect in terms of categories of NPs are not correct. Then I claim that this has to do with a presupposition that accompanies dou. In particular, I argue that dou is has a presupposition about expectations and I propose to build this aspect of meaning into the semantics of dou. Chapter 3 investigates dou in a structure where plurality is not needed to license dou. Instead, focus is the crucial licensing factor. This is traditionally assumed to involve the lian...dou/ye 'dou/also' structure where it has a scalar reading similar to the meaning even has in English. Researchers disagree as to whether this dou should be assimilated to distributive dou or should be treated separately. Through careful investigations into some rarely addressed properties of dou in this structure, I conclude in favor of the ambiguity view of dou. In addition, I propose to link this dou to distributive dou through context sensitivity as I developed in chapter 2. Finally, I provide a compositional semantics for lian...dou/ye based on the semantics of each individual particle.
Chapter 4 extends the discussion to dou in free choice structures: dou co-occurring with renhe-NPs 'any' or wh-NPs yields a FC reading, similar to the corresponding English sentences with FC any. In this chapter, I explore the two FC structures from the perspective of English FC any and whatever on the one hand and from that of our prior discussions of dou on the other. We argue that renhe...dou is like universal any but wh...dou is neither like universal any nor definite whatever. It is suggested that dou in the two FC structures, renhe...dou and wh...dou, is related to distributive dou and scalar dou respectively, in support of our claim that there are two related but distinct dou's.
Chapter 5 closes this thesis and provides some initial exploration of the interactions between dou and bare NPs. Chinese bare NPs are, basically, like English bare plurals displaying various readings in various contexts. This chapter examines the behavior of bare NPs in various contexts from the perspective of the two-dou account developed in this dissertation. This investigation, though preliminary, provides further support for our claim that dou has a presupposition about the prior expectations on the part of the speaker and that the two dou's need to be separated.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-193)
A New Approach to Slice Analysis Via Slice Topology
No full textIn this paper we summarize some known facts on slice topology in the quaternionic case, and we deepen some of them by proving new results and discussing some examples. We then show, following Dou et al. (A representation formula for slice regular functions over slice-cones in several variables, arXiv:2011.13770, 2020), how this setting allows us to generalize slice analysis to the general case of functions with values in a real left alternative algebra, which includes the case of slice monogenic functions with values in Clifford algebra. Moreover, we further extend slice analysis, in one and several variables, to functions with values in a Euclidean space of even dimension. In this framework, we study the domains of slice regularity, we prove some extension properties and the validity of a Taylor expansion for a slice regular function
[[alternative]]Lian...dou/ye Construction
No full text[[abstract]]The thesis deals with the ‘lian…dou/ye …’ construction in modern Chinese. In order to clarify the informational status of ‘lian…’, issues on topic and focus are shown in the first part of this thesis. Then, discussions on semantic functions and conversational implicatures of this construction constitute the sencond part. Lastly, the formal complexity and pedagogical instructions will be presented as well.
Josep Finestres, Epistolari. Suplement. Addicions a la correspondència amb I. de Dou y de Solà, G. Mayans i Siscar, G. Meerman ...
No full textLópez François. Josep Finestres, Epistolari. Suplement. Addicions a la correspondència amb I. de Dou y de Solà, G. Mayans i Siscar, G. Meerman .... In: Bulletin Hispanique, tome 75, n°1-2, 1973. pp. 241-242
The Description of the City of Quinsai in the Early Tradition of the "Devisement dou monde"
No full textIndagine sulle diverse forme assunte dall'importante capitolo su Quinsai (Hang-zhou) nella tradizione del "Devisement dou monde", con particolare attenzione alla redazione latina Z
Complexity and retrograde analysis of the game Dou Shou Qi
No full textDou Shou Qi is a game in which players control a number of pieces, aiming to move one of these onto a certain square. We will present a proof showing that this game is PSPACE-hard. Furthermore, we have implemented an analyzing engine and created an endgame tablebase containing all configurations with up to four pieces. These are the first steps towards theoretically solving the game. Finally, we report on some interesting patterns which we found by analyzing the endgame tablebase
Per un lessico europeo dell’identità medievale. Il caso della Chanson de Roland e del Devisement dou monde
No full textStudio delle strategie linguistiche e testuali attraverso le quali vengono definite l'identità (cristiana) e l'alterità (musulmana) nel "Devisement dou monde" e nella "Chanson de Roland"
A representation formula for slice regular functions over slice-cones in several variables
No full textThe aim of this paper is to extend the so called slice analysis to a general case in which the codomain is a real vector space of even dimension, i.e. is of the form R2n. This is a new setting which contains and encompasses in a nontrivial way other cases already studied in the literature and which requires new tools. To this end, we define a cone WCd in [End(R2n)]d and we extend the slice topology τs to this cone. Slice regular functions can be defined on open sets in (τs,WCd) and a number of results can be proved in this framework, among which a representation formula. This theory can be applied to some real algebras, called left slice complex structure algebras. These algebras include quaternions, octonions, Clifford algebras and real alternative ∗ -algebras but also left-alternative algebras and sedenions, thus providing brand new settings in slice analysis
Extension theorem and representation formula in non-axially-symmetric domains for slice regular functions
No full textSlice analysis is a generalization of the theory of holomorphic functions of one complex variable to quaternions. Among the new phenomena which appear in this context, there is the fact that the convergence domain of f(q) = Sigma(n is an element of N) (q - p)*(n)a(n), given by a sigma-ball Sigma(p, r), is not open in H unless p is an element of R. This motivates us to investigate, in this article, what is a natural topology for slice regular functions. It turns out that the natural topology is the so-called slice topology, which is different from the Euclidean topology and nicely adapts to the slice structure of quaternions. We extend the function theory of slice regular functions to any domains in the slice topology. Many fundamental results in the classical slice analysis for axially symmetric domains fail in our general setting. We can even construct a counterexample to show that a slice regular function in a domain cannot be extended to an axially symmetric domain. In order to provide positive results we need to consider so-called path-slice functions instead of slice functions. Along these lines, we can establish an extension theorem and a representation formula in a slice domain
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